Religion

So what's with Jesus cursing the fig tree?

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It seems very odd and out of character, especially since the rest of his miracles are healing and the like. Not to say that Jesus doesn't elsewhere get angry, but the incident at the Temple seemed justified. More justified than exacting revenge on a tree, anyway.

"Jesus desired to eat of the fruit of the fig tree one more time before He died, but could not. Fig trees do not bear their fruit in the spring, during Passover, but in the fall of the year. However, fig trees do have a small, edible fruit that appears in the spring before the sprouting of the leaves. This tree was full of leaves, but had no fruit. It looked full of promise, but was empty - just like the city of Jerusalem and its beautiful temple. This miracle - the only recorded miracle of Jesus that involved judgment - illustrates God's judgment on the Israelites, who professed adherence to God but produced no fruit or spiritual reality."

The fig curse is connected with the sixth seal in the future(after the abomination of desolation in Jerusalem). For the people who stay passive( no fruits) instead of doing your Christian job by praying the gospel about kingdom of God over the world .http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mat%2024:7-22&version=KJV

The sixth seal in the future shall be worse than the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "New England's Dark Day in 1780", and the Leonid Meteor shower of 1833 (Rev. 6:13)"